Smyrna times., 1887-06-29
Maryland Items

Lightning and hail have done mnot
Talbot. ''i's o.
The colored people of Union Church
AllllngtOn, will picnic in RiIav1.
woods on the 4th.
The following notice was posted on
tne door of 4 business place in Centre.
vliIe last week: Gond Ought.
VIII bee i'll soOne."
From Il report in the last issua .,
the Cicil Wing, Elkton has had an Id
II!Ili Iltlon OF ~ dwelling houses since the
!DuIlulng ! OF the Singerly mills. This is
l1ueeu good showing, and shows con
cluslVely what manufacturers do for =
town. 4Oi d
The large barn and outbuildings Of
T. remington, on what is known
as the Jesse Wilson Farm. about 81
miles from Kennedyville. Kent countv
were destroyed by fire Monday morg1
lng' Inc farming implements and live
STOCK were saved, but about 200 BUSH
els OF corn and lot of hay were des-
ttrIoyed with the barn. The origin Of
the IRE IS unknown. Loss about Sc. 600
thought to be covered by insurance.
MtlingtOn's Pedches.-The peach cron
as estimated by railroad authorities ~
hllllington station is $4,000 baskets
11mOhg y lT the largest shippers are Gov.
I'- D. l. blggs and sons, who have 67.OOO
.i tIbes rom to is years old. Crops es.
timated $4,000 baskets. c. o. Cacv
mas II 900 trees and estimated croD of
l3,OOO baskets. J. B. Stevens. OO0
trees, 1000 baskets. Mrs. Crane. 4 OOO
baskets. The storm of SUNDAY even
ing struck c. o. Cacy's old orchard and
ruined about One-third of the trees
Gov. Biggs' and Mrs. Crane'a orchards
are injured to some extent
The nill of the Talbot County Ponar
Mlll company, near Easton, manufac.
turers OF straw board, was burned last
sunday night. The mill had been shut
down for several months. There had
1eeN no lire In or about the building
anu everything of inflammable nature
!lkely TO cause spontaneous combustion
mad been removed. The directors he
lleVe that 1t was the work Ofan incen-
diary, and have offered a reward for
MS detection. Previous ATTEMPTS had
oeen made to fire the stables and the
storage house of the cOmpanv in
Easton. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
4 Female -Ero4ant.-Miss Grace Le-
mere, OF Ohio, RaG been making balloon
aSeepts at Colchester Beach this week
she came near making her last one on
thursday. After going up some dis
lance the balloon started out towards
the bay. The 1000 persons who wit
messed the freak became very much
excited. The steamer Louise was at
once sent after the balloon, Which feil
about three miles fFOm shore, When
the beat rpac6ed Miss Lenere she was
very much exhausted from the escap-
lnS gas. She was taken safely back to
the Beach amid the shouts of the ex-
culsionists. CentreCiHe Record.
In telling of the storm of Wednesday
morning, June %, the Kent NelUs saws:
In the vicinity of Rees's Corner the
storm was particularly severe and as
spmed the character Of a oyolone. 7
Walter SkirVin, DIR. T. B. Wilson
Walter Hadaway, +. s. ClOthier and
- As' DOAAltASuu were Jne Drl0ciDal
sufferers. In Mr.. Skirvin's old peach
orchard of 900 trees a large number
of them are blown up and the greater
part OF the others torn and injured. In
his fOur-year-Old orchard Of 2,2OO trees.
said to be one of the prettiest in the
county, about 400 of them are DESTROYED
and a number of others more OF less
RICkep, and Mr.. SkiTYin reports that
portion of the orchard in which there
was the most fruit the more seriously
damaged. AS an Indication of the Sc
verify of the storm Immediately around
Mr.. Skirvin's dwelling, he reports the
house, which is an old and substantial
brick structure, as being very peroep-
tlbly skake1, and he has hauled FROM
his front yard twenty horse cart loads
8f debris from his shade trees, which
are all destroyed He does not esti-
mate his loss, but says that he would
give $4,000 to have things as they were
previous to the storm.